It’s Ami Angelwings, the person who owns and runs Escher Girls.
If you haven’t seen my previous responses yesterday, I am aware of Tumblr moving to ban all content flagged as NSFW on Dec 17 and therefore I’m moving Escher Girls off of Tumblr.
This has been a long time coming and I’ve talked about it before, but due to school (and my social anxiety about asking for donations) I’ve been slow to do it or to start my Patreon to fund the expenses involved (domain registering, hosting, moving the posts over, site upgrades, etc). Obviously, the clock is now ticking and the threat of losing a project you put 7 years of effort into turns out to be pretty motivating.
If people want to help support my work and help me move Escher Girls off Tumblr and preserve it (aside from a fun blog I’ve always intended it also to be a useful archive for anybody wanting examples).
As well, it’ll help me improve the site and add more things like videos and reviews (I already make videos if people don’t know! check out my Patreon for more details!)
As for what else people can do to help, I’ve already registered a domain thanks to a generous donation last night (http://www.eschergirls.com) but we still haven’t decided on a hosting service. If anybody knows a good hosting service based in Canada, please let me know. I’m likely going to use either WordPress or Drupal as my CMS. And if you could reblog, tweet, and otherwise share this post and spread the word about Escher Girls around that would be great too, just so people can follow us to our new home! 😀
I remember years ago listening to a doctor speak on the radio and something stuck with me ever since. I’m paraphrasing but the gist was this:
When someone who has been sad, distant, not themselves for a while suddenly starts going out of there way to see people, often giving them gifts or possessions don’t assume they got ‘better’. This is the time to really ask them if they are okay; to reach out and not simply accept the answer of ‘fine’ or ‘great’ or ‘never better’. Because for some people the relief of having made the decision to end their life can make them happy, euphoric even.
He pointed out that often this change in the person is such a relief to their friends and family after having seeing someone they love suffer, they just don’t realise what has caused the change and frankly they don’t want to ‘rock the boat’ because they are just so happy to have the person they love ‘back’. But in reality, the person they love is saying goodbye.
During the interview, he told the story of a colleague (back when he had a factory job before he became a doctor) who had been depressed for a long time. One day he came in and was really happy, people kept commenting on how good it was that he wasn’t sad and grumpy anymore. He gave people some of his things, took people to lunch. Went home and killed himself.
He explained that when the police came to talk to people, they told him it was a common story they heard “but they were so much better.”
So be there for your friends and family. Tell them what they mean to you. Let them talk to you without fear of judgement. LISTEN. Suggest people get help if you think they need it.
Finally, let me add: The world will not be better off without you in it. You matter. You will be missed. Please don’t harm, hurt or kill yourself.
I did this last year and inexplicably turned out to be eligible for Medicaid in WV, which I STILL have. Absolute and total lifechanger that’s letting me go to school instead of having to work full time.
Copying @xfreischutz‘s tags because it was a really good point. The dates for now are the same as last year. Get out there and get you your health insurance!
(Personal note: I qualified for Medicaid in Pennsylvania last year and I wasn’t expecting it. It really does help if you do it.)
NOTE – the Trump administration has allowed the sale of short term and catastrophic coverage plans. DO NOT BUY THESE. THEY WILL NOT HELP YOU. THEY ARE PREDATORY.
Make sure, if you qualify for ACA coverage, that you are purchasing a plan that is at least Silver tier!
I need to have access to good health care. I’m chronically ill with horrible and scary diseases. I’ve already almost died three times, and have been on my death bed twice.
I’m in and out of hospitals constantly.
I NEED HELP. I NEED TO LEAVE AND MOVE IN ORDER TO SURVIVE!!! Please fucking help me.
Boost my links, donate whatever! I’m grateful for anything !!
I don’t want to die. I’ve been fighting for my life since I was 16. I’m taking my health seriously and using the little bit of energy that I have to get shit done.
I’m honestly only asking for the bare minimum of what I need to move, and pay for my medical shit. That’s all.
PLEASE DONATE OR BOOST MY LINKS!!!!!!
NOW IS THE TIME TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT AND BE AN ALLY !
PLEASE READ AND SHARE MY GOFUNDME!! REPOST, & REBLOG!! Copy and paste my links & story and share on ALL your social media’s (twitter, Facebook, tumblr and Instagram!!!!) it helps me so much ! Using PayPal is a direct way to help me but also getting my story out there helps as well and is so important !!
I’m almost half way there !!! I have a chance!! Please help !!
SIGNAL BOOST
fuck healthcare in this country, man. thinkin’ about you, frendo. 💗
Hello! My name is Three and I’m in a bit of a pickle currently. After some failing mental health I failed a class, which means that I can lose my entire scholarship that I worked to get for four years, meaning that I will lose my entire education, my entire future and, most importantly, a safe place to say. The only way for me to keep it without taking 3 more classes on top of 5 classes I have lined up is if I pay the college back what the scholarship paid for that class. My university pays for my therapy and add ons also, so if I lose this then I lose everything I’ve worked for pretty much my whole life.
I will be opening up commissions soon enough, but in the mean time while I set those up, I have a Paypal and a Ko-Fi that are functional at this moment (although I’m still adding things to the Ko-Fi).
I understand that there are better things to donate your money to so I do get it if you don’t and I don’t want people to not be able to eat because of me because I know what that’s like.
However, if you’re looking for super cheep art, even before I make the commission post, if you buy me one Ko-Fi ( $3 or paypal me $3) I will make you an icon of whoever you want. If you buy two Ko-Fis ($6 or paypal me $6)
I will make you 2 icons OR a sketch of whatever you want! These are discounted prices and a pretty good deal before the real commission storm begins! I will do the best I can at robots/mechs and furries!! If you dont like it, tell me what needs improving and I’ll fix it in a second! Line art can be smooth or pixeled (like mspaint but better)
If you paypal or give me even more Ko-Fis please let me know so we can work out what you’d like!
All you have to do is send me poof or mention your url in the sending info and I’ll get right to work! Thank you so much!!
Discord have recently announced something important:
‘Look out for a Discord user by the name of “swooperscooper” with the tag #6216. He is going around sending friend requests to random Discord users, and those who accept his friend requests will have their accounts DDoSed and their groups exposed with the members inside it becoming a victim as well. Spread the word and send this to as many discord servers as you can. If you see this user, DO NOT accept his friend request and immediately block him.
Our team is currently working very hard to remove this user from our database, please stay safe.
Do you love SeiSub? Do you want to create fanwork for the pairing? Then join us for this exchange event! This event is suitable for people of all ages and all skill levels, whether you have previously published work or not.
How this works:
Sign ups will open on December 1st and close on December 29th
You will submit three prompts for a gift you’d like to receive
After sign-ups have ended, you will be assigned someone to create a gift for. someone will also be assigned to create a gift for you (secret!)
Works must be mostly complete by March 15th, and will be posted gradually over the month of April!
If you’d like to participate, please see our schedule and our FAQ for more details, and follow us for any updates! If you have any questions that arent addressed there, you can send us an ask or email us at seisubhanamiexchange@gmail.com. We’re really excited to bring this event to you. We hope to see you back here in December!
So this happened to me a few days ago, and I thought maybe sharing my experience could help someone if this happens to them in the future.
I was checking my Tumblr when suddenly I was logged out from it and given the usual Log In page. When I entered the details to access my blog, this appeared:
My heart skipped a bit. I tried to re-enter the details (maybe I got them wrong the first time), but no, the same message about Termination was shown. I typed my blog URL and got the
ominous
:
Same thing with my sideblogs.
So obviously I was very worried. I contacted the Tumblr support but didn’t get an answer for 48 hours, only an automated reply. I already started mentally saying goodbye to my blogs, my posts and all my followers, when finally I recieved their answer:
(In case you can’t see the picture, it says:
Hello, We’ve restored your account. Thank you for bringing this problem to our attention. We’re sorry that it occurred, and we’ll do our best to make sure that it doesn’t happen again. You should now be able to log in just fine with your email address and password. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with.
My blog was restored and working normally. All my sideblogs were intact , and so were my posts and my followers. The only thing that was lost, is all the conversations by Messages. The people with whom you talked are still there, but all the history of the conversation is gone.
Alright so here is what you should do if this happens to you. Don’t panick like I did Click on the “contact support” link provided in the terminated window. Alternatively, go on Tumblr.com/support.
Politely explain your situation – give your blog URL, your mail, tell what happened exactly. I understand that the situation can be upsetting, but the person who will read the message and try to help you isn’t directly responsible for the termination of your blog. And sending an angry message with insults isn’t the best way to get your blog back either.
Wait for the reply of the team. If you feel like it takes too much time (more than few days for example), try to fill the Help/Support form again.
Once the team is in contact with you, keep the polite tone. Normally if your blog didn’t go againt the Tumblr rules and policies, you should getit back like I did.
Voila 🙂
@monstersandmaw heres something that may help if they come for you
Thank you!! Reblogging for others’ reference. (I saved the info elsewhere)
As of today, November 17, 2018, any post with links, any links, even to other tumblr posts, just don’t show up anymore in tumblr’s search engine.
I just found out about it, after I posted a fic with a link to my masterlist and it got little to no notes (it shuldn’t). I was right – the moment I deleted the links, my post magically appeared in the search again. Wow.
Please spread the word to warn the others.
This affects artists who want to cross promote their work, writers who want to link to previous chapters or to a masterlist, and editors who want to link to their YouTube channels, among just a few. This new policy will kill content creators’ ability to spread their work, and for what? A poor attempt to use the algorithm to crack down on porn bots and scammers? Sad.
In the meantime, here’s what I suggest: post your work with no added links, and tell people to check the notes for your masterlist, story navigation, links to ko-fi, patreon, and other social media sites. Make sure you have all those things ready, then paste it into a reblog and have people access them that way. It’s stupid, but it’s a work around we’ll have to use until tumblr gets their act together.
Reblogging again because I need advice on creating masterpost links.
Welp, I’m boned
ime people, myself included, cannot be arsed to go through notes on a post anyway. -_-
I was so sad I reblogged to the wrong blog
No freaking wonder the pieces with links to my patreon have been struggling more than normal!!
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